Patrick Jeffrey
	Position: Head Diving Coach Experience: 14th Season Alma Mater: Ohio State, 1988

To mold a championship diver it takes a true champion, and Florida State's Patrick Jeffrey certainly fits that bill. A three-time NCAA Champion and two-time Olympian, Jeffrey was inducted into the Ohio State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005. Entering his 13th year in Tallahassee, his experience has helped Florida State divers re-write the ACC and Seminole record books year after year while maintaining one of the strongest diving programs in the conference.

At the 2012 ACC Championships, all eight divers competed in at least one championship final. With a team of four ladies and four men in 2012, Jeffrey coached six of those eight to All-ACC performances including an ACC Champion in Katrina Young. Young would be the first-ever female platform ACC Champion for the Seminoles since the event was added back in 2008. The Shoreline, Wash. native went onto qualify for the NCAA Championships, where she turned in a fourth place finish on the platform, claiming All-America honors. Her fourth place showing tied the highest individual finish by a female Florida State swimmer or diver at the NCAA event. As a team Jeffrey's divers displayed dominance at the 2012 ACC Championships with all eight members qualifying for a championship final. He guided three men to the finals in both springboard events, before placing four in the final on the platform. For the ladies, three dove in the championship on 1-meter, while two competed in the finals of 3-meter.

Young wasn't the only diver in the spotlight during the 2011-2012 season. Jeffrey coached Ariel Rittenhouse back to her ways as she grabbed the silver medal on the women's 1-meter springboard at ACC's before she qualified for NCAA's. Kelsey Goodman improved from her freshman season as she took third on the women's 3-meter springboard. The lone qualifier for NCAA's on the men's side was Tom Neubacher, who handily won the 1-meter springboard at the NCAA Zone B qualifier. Nick Klein grabbed the bronze on the men's platform and Ford McLiney took silver on the 3-meter springboard.

Prior to the 2011-12 season, Jeffrey coached a number of Seminole gems including Terry Horner and Landon Marzullo. Horner is the most decorated diver in Florida State history with six All-America performances including one NCAA Championship showing back in 2007. Horner is also a three-time ACC Champion. In 2011 Marzullo finished out his career as a Seminole with an All-America performance on the 3-meter springboard.

In addition to Young and Horner, Jeffrey has also coached six other ACC Champions. Josh Edelman, Louis Gagnet, Dan Friebel, Chelsie Lerew Courtney McClow, Tiffany Manning, Brittany Lerew, Young and Horner have earned the Seminoles 20 gold medals in the diving events in 12 years.

Jeffrey has also helped usher in a new era in international competition for the Garnet and Gold with Horner earning a place on the 2009 World Championship team. Horner earned a 16th place finish in the one-meter. Horner also finished second in the one-meter at the USA Diving National Championships later in the summer of 2009 and seventh in the three-meter. Maruzullo would follow those footsteps two years later in 2011 by representing the U.S. at the World University Games. In 2010, the men's team took the team championship at the Winter Nationals.

The 2008 season was business as usual for Florida State divers with three All-American performances, four All-ACC results and two ACC Championships. On the men's side Jeffrey's four divers under Jeffery earned 10 top-eight finishes at the ACC Championships led by a pair of victories by Horner (one-meter, three-meter) and a pair of second place finishes by Frebel (three-meter, platform). The women also held their own at the ACC Championships with the team's four divers earning points in 11 out-of 12 opportunities.

An NCAA Division I Champion himself, Jeffrey can now say he's coached one with Terry Horner's victory in 2007 on the one-meter board.

Since Jeffrey's arrival in 1999, he's not only put Florida State Diving on the map, he's set the standard for diving in the entire conference. Seminole divers have captured 20 of the 49 ACC championships on the boards during Jeffrey's tenure. Under his guidance Florida State has claimed at least one conference title on the men's side in seven of the past 12 seasons and the school's four-straight championships on the one-meter and three more in the three-meter have not been equaled in nearly 20 years. Additionally 21 of Jeffrey's divers have earned All-ACC honors and over the last 12 seasons, Florida State divers have claimed four Women's ACC Divers of the Meet awards, three Men's ACC Diver of the Meet honors as well as a Women's ACC Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Year accolades.

The only records not owned by Jeffrey's divers are from All-Americans Paul Spray and Wendy Fuller which will stand forever because of event format changes.

Jeffrey's coaching accolades also stretch internationally. He was among the staff at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy where he coached Horner. In 2007 Jeffrey was a member of the United States World University Games staff where he coached two of his own student-athletes, Horner and Frebel. He was on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team coaching staff along with the 1997 and 1999 US Senior World Cup staffs. He also coached the 2001 U.S. World Championship team in Fukioka, Japan. He has served as a Senior National team coach from 1997-2000 with a one year stint (1998) with the Junior National Team. Under Jeffrey's tutelage, divers have won five U.S. Senior National titles, three Junior National championships, and a pair of third place finishes for the Senior Men's team in U.S. national competition.

Jeffrey's wealth of diving knowledge is a direct result of his own career. A seven-time All-American, he highlighted his tenure at Ohio State with a tremendous senior season in 1988. He became the first, and still only, diver in NCAA history to sweep all three diving events with championships on the one-meter, three-meter and platform, earning him 1988 NCAA Diver of the Year. Leading up to those NCAA Championships, he swept the Big Ten Conference meet as well and was honored with 1988 Big Ten Diver of the Year.

On the international scene, Jeffrey was a finalist on the ten-meter platform at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. He is a five-time U.S. National Diving Champion splitting those championships between disciplines with three in the ten-meter platform event while holding a pair of titles in the three-meter springboard event. He was also the U.S. Olympic Trials Champion on platform in 1996. In addition, he won bronze medals at the 1991 and 1995 Pan-Am games. He competed as a member of the US's 1989 and 1995 World Cup teams as well as at the 1993 Goodwill Games Team.

Most importantly, Jeffrey has drawn from all his experiences on the boards and as a coach to structure a program that is designed to develop up and coming athletes into national and world level contenders. He takes from the knowledge that he obtained in his 20 years as an athlete and the subsequent 15 years at the world and national levels.

JEFFREY'S COACHING RESUME:

2009: World Championship Team

2007: World Student Games Team

2001: U.S. World Championship Team

2000: U.S. Olympic Team

1999 U.S. World Cup Team

1999-present: Diving Coach, Florida State

1998: Junior National Team

1997: US World Cup Team

1996-present: U.S. Senior National Team

1996-99: Diving Coach, Atlantic Diving Team, Boca Raton, FL

JEFFREY'S DIVING RESUME:

1988 United Stated Olympic team

1996 United States Olympic team

1996 US Olympic Trials Champion

5-time US National Champion

3-time NCAA Division I Champion

2-time Pan Am Bronze Medalist

2-time U.S. World Cup Team Member

U.S. Good Will Games Team Member

Many Time International Champion/Medalist

General Information

2012-13 Swimming and Diving Almanac 

School Records 

All-Time All-Americans 

All-Time ACC Champions 

All Time Top 10 

FSU Athletics Fast Facts 

FSU Fast Facts 

2011-12 Almanac 

ʼNoles to Compete at the FINA World Championships

Young Selected for World University Games

Goodman Places Sixth on Final Day of World Championship Trials

Young Finishes Fifth at World Championship Trials

Goodman Remains in Fifth After Semifinal

Young Sits in Fifth After Semifinals

Goodman Places Eighth at World Championship Trials